Kirsten Haglund

Kirsten Haglund

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title=Miss Michigan 2007
Miss America 2008
nationalcompetition=Miss America 2008 (winner)
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birthname= Kirsten Haglund
high school= Walled Lake Western High School
eye color= Brown
hair color=Blonde

Kirsten Haglund (born September 14, 1988) is a beauty queen from Farmington Hills, Michigan who is Miss America 2008.

Biography

Haglund graduated from Walled Lake Western High School in 2006 and is pursuing a BFA in Musical Theatre at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, although she took a year off to fulfill her duties as Miss Michigan and prepare for the Miss America pageant and will postpone her studies until she has completed her reign. [cite news|title=Brother recalls Haglund playing at winning Miss America|date=2008-01-26|last=Associated Press|url=http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-50/1201409758251600.xml&storylist=newsmichigan|publisher=mlive.com] [cite news|url=http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-50/1201523343230170.xml&storylist=newsmichigan|title=Michigan's Miss America takes time off from U. of Cincinnati|date=2008-01-28|last=Associated Press|publisher=mlive.com]

Pageants

Miss Michigan

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Miss America

Competition

Haglund went on to represent Michigan in the Miss America 2008 pageant broadcast on TLC from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino on January 26, 2008.cite news|title=Farmington Hills native wins Miss America|url=http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080126/NEWS03/80126057|date=2008-01-26|last=Associated Press] She won a preliminary swimsuit award on Wednesday night, becoming her state's first Preliminary Swimsuit award since 1987. For her talent she sang "Over the Rainbow". At the conclusion of the live telecast, Haglund was crowned the 83rd Miss America. She succeeds Lauren Nelson, of Lawton, Oklahoma and is Michigan's fifth Miss America and her state's first for twenty years. [cite news|title=A dream come true for Miss America|first=Shawn|last=Lewis|publisher=The Detroit News|url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/METRO/801280377|date=2008-01-28] At 19, Haglund was the youngest girl in the competition, and the youngest Miss America winner since Kimberly Clarice Aiken took the title in 1993. [cite news|title=Miss Michigan wins crown in a song |publisher=Las Vegas Review Journal|url=http://www.lvrj.com/news/14465102.html|first=Sonya|last=Padgett|date=2008-01-27] Haglund's grandmother Iora Hunt represented Detroit, Michigan at Miss America 1944.cite news|title=Michigan pageant success is in genes|publisher=Las Vegas Review Journal|first=Norm|last=Clarke|date=2008-01-24|url=http://www.lvrj.com/news/14177677.html]

Her platform is eating disorder awareness, as she suffered from anorexia when she was sixteen.

Reign

parade.

References

External links

* [http://www.missamerica.org Miss America official website]


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